Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 7:20
Or, And “the beauty of his ornament, he” (the people) turned “it” to pride.
Have I set it far from them - Rather, as in the margin - therefore have I made it their defilement and their disgrace.
Or, And “the beauty of his ornament, he” (the people) turned “it” to pride.
Have I set it far from them - Rather, as in the margin - therefore have I made it their defilement and their disgrace.
Verse Ezekiel 7:20. _AS FOR THE BEAUTY OF HIS ORNAMENT_] Their _beautiful_ _temple_ was their highest _ornament_, and God made it _majestic_ by his presence. But they have even taken its riches to ma...
Ezekiel 7:1. This chapter closes the first great message of Ezekiel. This great judgment message is written in beautiful language, which, in the Authorized Version, is marred by numerous incorrect ren...
In the dread day of the siege, _when_ ruthless Babylonian hands would profane Yahweh's secret (or rather cherished) place, _i.e._ the Temple, famine would reign, and then not all their silver and gold...
IT: i.e. His Sanctuary, or His holy city Jerusalem. AND. Some codices, with Syriac and Vulgate, read this "and" in the text. "and their"....
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
Picture of the dissolution of the state (1) Ezekiel 7:14. The trumpet shall sound the alarm, but none shall prepare himself for the battle. The sword shall devour without and famine consume within. A...
Read: AND THE BEAUTY OF THEIR ORNAMENT THEY TURNED INTO PRIDE, AND THEY MADE THE IMAGES … THEREOF; THEREFORE WILL I MAKE IT UNTO THEM A THING UNCLEAN. The thing spoken of is still their silver and gol...
AS FOR THE BEAUTY OF HIS ORNAMENT— Houbigant's translation is, _They made of it_ [the gold] _beautiful and splendid ornaments, with which they adorned the abominable images of their gods: therefore wi...
3. _The economic distress (7:19-22_) TRANSLATION (19) They shall cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall become an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to del...
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. AS FOR THE BEA...
7:20 therein (a-12) Or 'of his beautiful ornament, he (i.e. the people) hath made his pride; and they have made therefrom.'...
21. The rendering in AV and RV means that the Temple, profaned already by Israel's idolatry, would be further polluted by the heathen conquerors. Most scholars, however, take THE BEAUTY OF HIS (the pe...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL This is a final message of doom upon the whole land (Ezekiel 7:2). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close at hand...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 7 THE *DISASTERS WILL HAPPEN SOON – EZEKIEL 7:1-13 v1...
IN MAJESTY. — Rather, _for pride._ That which had been given them “for the beauty of ornament,” viz., their silver and gold (Ezekiel 7:19), they had perverted to purposes of pride. Nay, further, they...
וּ צְבִ֤י עֶדְיֹו֙ לְ גָאֹ֣ון שָׂמָ֔הוּ וְ
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on, e...
As for the beauty of his (p) ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things in it: therefore have I set it far from them. (p) Meaning,...
_And. Protestants, "As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the," &c. The sacred ornaments of the temple, appointed by God, (Haydock) have been converted into idols, and...
I include the whole under one reading for the sake of shortness. In these verses is contained, the effect which must always follow God's judgment. No rank, no state, no condition of man is exempt. Whe...
I doubt not that Ezekiel strengthens what he had just taught by other words, namely, that the people’s silver should be cast away, because it had been unworthily abused for luxury, vain pomps and supe...
Finally (chap. 7), the whole land of Israel is under the sentence of God, "the four corners of the land." Those who escape the general judgment mourn alone upon the mountains, having forsaken all in d...
AS FOR THE BEAUTY OF HIS ORNAMENT, HE SET IT IN MAJESTY,.... Or, "for pride" i. The gold, silver, jewels, riches, and treasure, which the Lord gave to this people, they made a bad use of; and instead...
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. Ver. 20. _As f...
_As for the beauty of his ornament_ The temple and all that pertained to it, which was the beauty and glory of the Jewish nation, and accounted so by them; _he set it in majesty_ God commanded that it...
THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
As for the beauty of his ornament, the riches with which Israel was endowed, with which he might adorn himself, HE SET IT IN MAJESTY, he turned it to the service of pride; BUT THEY MADE THE IMAGES OF...
SET IT FAR FROM THEM: Or, made it unto them an unclean thing...
16-22 Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin, may justly be left to pine away in it. There are many whose wealth is their snare and ruin; and the gaining t...
THE BEAUTY OF HIS ORNAMENT; their riches, the ornament of a nation, their silver, gold, &c. Or rather the temple and ark, and all that pertained to it, which was the beauty and glory of that nation, a...
Ezekiel 7:20 beauty H6643 ornaments H5716 set H7760 (H8804) majesty H1347 made H6213 (H8804) images H6754 things...
“As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations, and their detestable things in it. Therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing. And I...
CONTENTS: Miserable end of Judah because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: The ruin of sinners comes slowly but surely, but when it comes, it will be total. In the heaviest judgments God...
Ezekiel 7:2. _An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land._ The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they sh...
5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been already f...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the same group...
CHAPTER 7. LAMENTATION OVER THE GUILT AND FALL OF ISRAEL. THIS chapter does not contain anything properly new. It simply describes the mournful feelings and reflections which the preceding revelation...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel (Ezekiel 7:1-2); Now, the other was to the mountains, now to the land. the...
1 Chronicles 29:1; 1 Chronicles 29:2; 2 Chronicles 2:9; 2 Chronicles 3:1;...
The beauty — The temple, and all that pertained to it, which was the beauty and glory of that nation. He set — God commanded it should be beautiful and magnificent. Images — Their idols. Far from them...